@Rothmus: Data brokers and massive data aggregators secretly harvested personal and financial data. They inferred details about h…
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Data brokers and aggregators secretly collect personal and financial data to infer details about individuals and sell access to shadow profiles without consent, exploiting legal loopholes by selling inferences rather than raw data, leading to a backlash and calls for regulation.
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Data brokers and massive data aggregators secretly harvested personal and financial data. They inferred details about habits and credit risk then sold access to those shadow profiles without consent or transparency.
They structured their operations to exploit loopholes by selling inferences instead of raw data. This let them influence loans and rates while staying out of view.
Treating private information as a commodity to exploit invited the backlash now underway.
Your data belongs to you. Not them.
ConsumerDataPrivacy (@ConsumerDataPr): CASE Op-Ed in @thehill: The Data Brokers Congress Forgot to Regulate “Massive data aggregators don’t just sell your personal information, they sell conclusions about you, gleaned from your data.” @CASE_forAmerica
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